Man addicted to eating INSECTS reveals he has consumed 5,000 species in the past 11 years - with cockroaches among his favorites

A man has told how he is addicted to eating bugs and has consumed over 5,000 species in the past 11 years.

To satisfy his cravings David Gracer, 47, from Providence, Rhode Island, keeps a constant stock of his favorite treats, which include fly pupa, cockroaches and scorpions, in his basement freezer.

In a preview for tonight's episode of TLC's My Crazy Obsession, the married father-of-one demonstrates how he uses a net to hunt for creepy crawlies in the undergrowth and 'painlessly' kills them via a freezing method.

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Strange tastes: David Gracer, 47, from Providence, Rhode Island, has told how he is addicted to eating bugs and has consumed over 5,000 species in the past 11 years

Mr Gracer, who works as an English teacher, admits that his diet is unconventional.

'I get told that I'm crazy, or sick, or weird, and I mean that's what it is to be in an unpopular position,' he says.